Total and utter rubbish. She is German. Her father was a native of Berlin. She has Polish ancestors only on one side of her family, which does not make her Polish. I found no evidence that her mother was Jewish, except for unsubstantiated claims on some Neo-Nazi web sites.

nasska

Whatever happening to putting the number of minutes that pasta has to cook on the front of the packet? Whoever designed the packaging needs to take into account that some of us have to post and cook at the same time and don’t have 5 minutes to look for the cooking time in small writing in a small section of the packet at the back. At least the Italian pasta I’m using as well has the minutes in Italian at the front.

Reid

Therefore, almost all students are exposed to brainwashed by lefty propaganda.

Cogito. Ergo. Sum.

Duh.

I suggest you tell your son is that the influence of CO2 on the temperature has been vastly overstated by the warmist fanatics and this is why the models have been overstating the temperature predictions for the last few decades.

SPC

All one can find on the net is the usual suspects claiming that Herlind the mother of Angela had Jewish ancestors in Poland. The who and what of that is no where outlined.

Jewish identity unrelated to religion is passed on in the female line only. It is however extinguished in the generation where there is non Jewish religion – such as Catholicism or Lutheranism (so being agnostic John Key remains Jewish through his mother).

“A former climate modeller for the Government’s Australian Greenhouse Office, with six degrees in applied mathematics, Dr Evans has unpacked the architecture of the basic climate model which underpins all climate science. Dr Evans is an expert in Fourier analysis and digital signal processing, with a PhD, and two Masters degrees from Stanford University in electrical engineering, a Bachelor of Engineering (for which he won the University medal), Bachelor of Science, and Masters in Applied Maths from the University of Sydney.”

Awww C-mon

@Gabby, call me a hypocrite and dismiss my comments all you want, don’t care really. We all come for different reasons. Mine is primarily to read what the clever people say, be challenged by those I disagree with like Griff and Reid and be a lazy troll.

I have the odd spat with a few and throw barbs at some, including you previously. I just think that you in this case and Starboard at one other time crossed the line and I said so.

Gabby

He hasn’t been “exposed” at all Shawn. He has been shouted down by a bunch of morons who cite “Wikipedia” as their source.

Merkel is a childless foreigner who has little connection with the German people and has no stake in their future. Likewise, Cameron, Turnbull, Sarkozy whose loyalties belong to a tribe different from the one they rule over.

Here is a bit of truth in sunshine sarcasm and reasoning that might wake up some of you oatmeal heads who say there is no conspiracy. Unfortunately most of you have been so well indoctrinated you’ve come to love your slavery:

As every schoolboy know, Jews have been to the forefront of civil rights, diversity and Affirmative Action from Day 1. The ACLU, $PLC and various other Jewish pressure groups have assiduously examined employment statistics and developed complex mathematical formulae to determine each ethnic grouping’s appropriate representational level.

But never for themselves.

And this of course is entirely attributable to the legendary altruistic, selfless pursuit of the common good that we’ve come to associate with Jews. The worry themselves sick about justice for blacks, Muslims, lesbians, Hispanics, but never for themselves.

Well dammit, if they won’t do it for themselvesthen I will! And I’m starting here and now. Common justice demands it. They have waited, mute but hopeful, for long enough. So here’s my plan. As for every other minority an examination of Jewish representation will be undertaken at all our enterprises and institutions, and, applying the prevailing formulations, the appropriate Jewish representation level will be calculated.

As a broad guide for AA and diversity purposes we can assume that in Western countries they make up 1% of the population. Ok, I know, it’s less than that. But let’s give them the benefit of the doubt. Oy vey, they’ve suffered enough already.

So for example the US Senate should have at least one Jewish Senator at all times. It’s only fair. And banking too. Every ten years or so a Jew should be appointed to head up a major bank. And they’d be entitled to a few in the higher ranks of the HeBeBC BBC as well. In any event I think we should find out the figures. And if there are fewer (or in the unlikely event of there being more) the correct quota – as calculated by existing methods – should be applied. Same with academia, in fact everywhere.

To my Jewish friends and colleagues I say I’m not looking for your thanks or plaudits. Just like with you, my sense of fair play dictates my actions. And I’m sure we all can look forward to the day when representation fully and accurately reflect the ethnic mix of our communities.

Nostradamus

Awww C-mon:

Option 4, go onto the pc and Kiwiblog until the meal is presented?

Nice one!

Actually, when I think about it, there’s a debate going on in Australia about raising the GST (from 10% to 15%) and broadening the GST base (removing the exclusions). So we had Joe Hockey (former treasurer) a few months ago getting pressured into agreeing that female sanitary products should become GST-free.

Then, in a NZ context, we often hear the argument that we should remove GST from fruit and vegetables to encourage healthy eating.

My question for Kiwiblog readers:

If we remove GST from fruit and vegetables, then will healthy salads (everywhere from fine-dining restaurants to takeaway spots like Subway) become marginally cheaper? Will we see a surge in home cooking as people rush to the supermarket and fight for the freshest lettuce?

Reid

Griff I come back to the very simple fact. How come the Climate Models without Dr Evan’s conclusions do not match reality, whereas with Dr Evan’s modifications, they do?

If Dr Evans is wrong, propaganda aside, how come that is the case?

Has the thing we call reality gone out the window in the rush to prove AGW?

Have all the scientists whose only professional competence rating is how brainier they are than the other guy interfered with their professional judgement given that, if he’s right and they aren’t, they all look like a bunch of complete morons?

What about all the research funding, which keeps all the AGW industry going?

There is nothing more vigorously defended than a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

Awww C-mon

Nostra,

GST off certain products. The result will be that retailers will use the excuse, real or imagined, of extra costs and paperwork involved in seperating the products to claw back the difference and prices won’t change.

The true value of a product is what someone will pay for it, not what it costs or how much tax is involved.

On the aging and the reading glasses. I’m short sighted (too much reading as a child and then years programming), and now I’m experiencing near sightedness, but have resisted the reading glasses. Will probably succumb next year once we’ve paid off this year’s driving glasses.

In the meantime, I’ve started taking supplements for eyesight, and after a few weeks, my eyes are feeling much better. Not so dry and sore, which I didn’t realise they were. B12 helps with the colours as well. I’m not going down without a fight when it comes to this vision thing. I’ve also bought an eyewash which I used a number of years back with good results that I’d forgotten about. But I still can’t find my eyebath and the chemist doesn’t sell them anymore without wanting to sell me liquid as well. Not to mention that washing my eyes in a mild cayenne pepper mix is kinda hard to do, even though you get used to it.

mikenmild

Flat GST rate no flaffing around
As soon as you make exceptions effort goes into using them to distort the tax.
Eating fresh and healthy is always cheaper than eating crap you just need the energy to get of your fat lazy arse and do it.

SPC

What is most disturbing about these proud white race types is their poor knowledge of history.

Having ancestors born in what is currently Poland does not mean they have Polish ancestors – Prussia and Austria-Hungary had partitioned Poland with Russia. Thus many Germans lived there after Poland lost independence and before independence was restored after WW1.

Nostradamus

In the meantime, I’ve started taking supplements for eyesight, and after a few weeks, my eyes are feeling much better. Not so dry and sore, which I didn’t realise they were.

I’m interested in hearing more about this after you’ve finished your dinner – hopefully you’ll come back to talk to us!

You said that you’re taking supplements for “eyesight”, but then go to say that you’re experiencing less eye discomfort. Are you actually saying that your eyesight (in the sense of vision) has improved with these supplements? And have you tested that perception in front of an eye chart?

I was prompted by a pretty annoying thread in my vision, which after researching, found it was called a “floater” that gets more common as people age. I really don’t want more floaters as this was very annoying and was stressing me out. I realised I have more of them that I just though was dust on my glasses, so have been taking the supplement that I link to above as a means to improve the heath of my eyes. Maybe even my vision will improve. And so far my eyes do feel better, so fingers crossed.

Nostradamus

Just had a thought: The Standard must be in full Key Derangement Syndrome mode.

So I popped over for a look and, yes, here’s a selection from their front page:

There are no kiwi rapists on Christmas Island
John Key’s claim that Labour and Greens support the rapists on Christmas Island has struck a snag. There are none. And the brave action of progressive women MPs talking publicly about the sexual abuse they have suffered has shown how morally bankrupt Key’s politics are

When survivors speak out
Yesterday I did a round-up of the women’s voices on Twitter talking about recent events in Parliament, where women MPs from the Opposition, many of them survivors of sexual violence, were thrown out of the House

International shame – again
Key and Carter have brought NZ international shame yet again. Males in a position of power using rape as a cheap political tactic and then punishing women for speaking up.

Great political quotes of history – the Key version
Newsworthy imagines famous political quotes – as Key might have said them

New Zealand needs a new Speaker
David Carter’s refusal to rule John Key’s “backing the rapists” comment out of order raises issues about his ability to properly do the job of speaker

Reid

As soon as you make exceptions effort goes into using them to distort the tax.

Many many lives ago I used to work for the IRD as a GST Auditor so I know of what I speak.

The GST system we have in NZ is the envy of all the other Revenue Authorities in the world who operate a consumption tax for two reasons: its simplicity and its ubiquitousness.

If the lefties ever get their evil way and apply exemptions to it, it will shoot compliance cost through the roof and complicate business transactions like you would not believe.

The idiot lefties look at all the other flawed implementations like VAT in the UK and the GST in Aus and think, in their idiot way, why don’t we do the same. What the fools don’t get is those implementations are poison, ours are as close to perfection as you can get, for a consumption tax.

One. It’s simple and it’s self-regulating and it’s unavoidable. If the business doesn’t charge it, they don’t get to deduct it. And the business does that, not the govt.

Two. It’s non-inflationary. By excluding it from financial transactions like shares, mortgage interest, rent and other financial instruments, it doesn’t feed into the CPI.

Three. The zero-rating regime protects exports and punishes imports, thus supporting our manufacturing base. GST is not charged on goods or services exported overseas. Whereas it can be charged on such imports. Personally it disappoints me English has decided to wind up the import charges so I can no longer buy Amazon products without GST. That sucks. But the mechanism to do it has always been there and it’s a political decision to adjust it.

If the idiot lefties mess with this extra-ordinarily elegant regime, retailers will be faced with massive compliance costs. For instance, with VAT, they might not tax packets of flour, but it might be taxed if it’s used as an ingredient in batter for fish & chips.

This and a million other scenarios is the nightmare that will face large and small businesses if the lefties get their idiot way, with their naïve policy on removing it on fruit and vege. Because that opens Pandora’s Box.

Maggy Wassilieff

@Lucia Maria

Once you have followed Andrei’s advice and had your eyes checked out by an optician/opthamologist/GP…….. and hopefully been told that the floaters are benign, throw your little pills away and start embracing the general decay and breakdown of your body.

I don’t seem to be bothered by floaters…. but the hubby has had them for over 20 years…..probably been staring at computers for too many decades…..

Nostradamus

Reid:

I once looked at Australia’s GST legislation, in relation to a matter I was advising on, and was (like you) able to compare it with NZ’s GST legislation.

Australian law firms – particularly on the east coast – have large “indirect tax” teams standing by to advise on GST issues. It’s an unbelievably complex regime, and I can only assume that Australia ended up with it as some kind of political compromise when Howard/Costello brought it in. But political compromise usually results in compliance costs. GST compliance costs, like most other compliance costs, are borne by businesses in the first instance – and then duly passed on to consumers.

A ridiculous situation that’s beyond the comprehension of the “Mums and Dads” who pay twice – first for the nonsense that passes for parliamentary debate, and then for the political compromises.

Reid

Lucia I have lots of floaters, they started in my mid-twenties and no problems so far, thirty years later. I was told by the optometrist it’s nothing to worry about but if they ever start to move upward, then seek help very fast because as Andrei said it’s a sign the retina is detaching. They will move up not down because our vision is inverted and our brain corrects the image on the fly so we can understand it.

Isn’t God amazing.

Yet fools believe He doesn’t even exist.

A ridiculous situation that’s beyond the comprehension of the “Mums and Dads” who pay twice – first for the nonsense that passes for parliamentary debate, and then for the political compromises.

Yeah Howard got it completely wrong. He ignored the NZ advice, riding the wave of popularity. Another example of sheeple dictating the agenda.

Nostradamus

A popular Perth blogger has had his post deleted by Facebook because it “violated their community standards” even though he’s writing about a character that doesn’t even exist.

The creator of the Bell Tower Times Facebook page posts biting, satirical comments about fictional people he created which he believes are stereotypical of certain suburbs around Perth. He also targets social campaigners, Eagles and Dockers supporters, people’s social status – no one is spared the side-splitting, vitriolic attacks.

But it appears not everyone finds them funny.

When Mr BTT – as he likes to be called – posted a blog about Ms Food Instagrammer under one of his popular recurring themes of the Human Zoo, Facebook reacted swiftly by pulling the post.

“Facebook deleted the post on the grounds it violated their community standards,” Mr BTT told Fairfax Media. “They are never more specific than that. The community standards are incredibly broad, and the likely reason was that the moderator (or algorithm) decided I was targeting a private individual (which is not allowed). “Of course, the post was about a fictional character for the purpose of satire.”

Mr BTT said it’s not the first time Facebook has deleted one of his posts. But he’s become increasingly frustrated because the posts are not offensive or controversial. “I’m more frustrated at the culture of offence that exists, because I didn’t consider the piece to be controversial in the slightest,” he said.

His reference to “the culture of offence” is spot on.

We only have to look at the Twittersphere to find hordes of high-minded individuals, generally lefties, who are quick to discover an offensive comment, or to express support for someone else who claims to have been offended, even though the supposedly offensive comment wasn’t even directed at them in the first place.

I looked up all the possible causes, and no flashes in the peripheral vision and no more floaters. But, ok, I’ll go get my eyes checked out… soon.

Maggy, no way, I’m not throwing my pills out! These things are fantastic, they have ginkgo in them as well, which I’ve found very beneficial for me. And I colour my hair. No gradual acceptance of age going on here!

Reid, thanks. They do move down, but also can move with what I’m looking at – which can make the one that I noticed most annoying. It’s less annoying now though. It may have shrunk, or something, I’m not sure. I don’t really like paying attention to it.

Nostradamus

I really do hope DPF introduces a feature where we get to see who downticks comments.

I’d like to know, in particular, who downticked my 8:34 comment to Lucia. I’ve noticed that someone generally targets my comments for a drive-by downtick. I have a particular person in mind, but it’d be quite interesting to see if I’m right.

Nostradamus

Mikenmild:

I’m not a dietician so it would’ve been presumptuous of me to “explain” anything to Lucia. I was genuinely interested in hearing whether her perceived improvement had been confirmed in front of an eye test chart.

But the basic point you make is correct. The clue lies in the word “supplement” – a vitamin supplement can’t negate the adverse effects of an unhealthy diet.

Awww C-mon

Andrei

I’m sure that there are vitamins that are necessary for your eyes to function correctly and I am also fairly sure that the necessary quantities of these vitamins will be found in a normal diet – so if your biochemistry is functioning normally supplements are a waste of money

Things like floaters and detached retinas are physical though – engineering rather than biochemical in origin and no amount of pills and potions will correct them

Nostradamus

Nosty I just downticked you for no reason in particular but just cos I can.

How could you? *Sniff* Online life between us will never be the same!

Maybe what we need here is a downtick tribunal to deciderer justice on those bastards and send them off to Christmas Island if they don’t cooperate.

Ok. So how would that work? Wouldn’t it be cheaper (compared to the cost of flying them to Christmas Island) for DPF to introduce an electromagnetic pulse system, which sends an electrical current through the trigger-happy fingers of those who are designated as downtick trolls?

Nookin

A day or so ago I referred to the sad news that Laurent Vidal had died in his sleep. Laurent was the fiance and coach of Andrea Hewitt. He was also an extremely good triathlete in his own right and very popular.
For reasons that escape me altogether, this earned a down tick. I get the impression that some visitors here, possibly some residents, are just downright nasty. It might be therapeutic to pull the curtain aside.

Nostradamus

A law student is suing the government, after she claims it has failed to set appropriate targets for climate change reductions.

Sarah Thomson, from Hamilton, has filed a case with the High Court in Wellington against the government’s Minister for Climate Change Issues Tim Groser. The 24-year-old claims the government has failed to set emissions targets that reflect the science on climate change and she is calling on the High Court to review New Zealand’s emissions targets.

Well, as a lawyer, I’ll give her advice for free: the case will fail. It’d be interesting to read her statement of claim to see why she thinks she has an arguable case.

Thomson’s bold move comes on the back of a defining ruling in the Netherlands where a group of environmentalists successfully sued the Dutch government for failing to properly act against climate change. In a landmark decision, the Dutch courts ruled the government had been slack on its action to mitigate climate change and forced it to adopt more ambitious greenhouse gas reduction targets. “[From that case] I realised it wasn’t just about the environment, it was about human rights – the right to safety, the right to security,” Thomson said.

Oh goodness – so we’ve crossed the Rubicon from science to human rights?

nasska

Maggy Wassilieff

@Reid

You are a poor observer of the female sex.

Our kids are not a gray, butch version of us.

Take me, for instance: Not an oil painting by any stretch, with no fashion sense, and never wearing make-up….. (i.e. in a league with the hideous hags discussed earlier today)….but my daughters are gorgeous (thank goodness for genetics).
Somehow they learnt how to put on make-up (not that they need it), wear lovely clothes and dye their mousey hair.

The last thing on earth kids want to be is a dull version of their parents.

SPC

Awww-Cmon, I’ll downtick you then because the stats 10% owning 50% of the wealth are accurate.

And the one-liner was pertinent, exemption of capital investment is inflationary – in asset values. And that impacts on house affordability. Claiming that inflation is contained when house prices go up like they have is risible.

And assisting the growth in debt fuelled “spending” is a bankers charter not one to contain living costs. There is a reason Bollard wanted a surcharge on mortgage loans – to hold down the OCR and assist real business.

Floyd60

cha

Meanwhile, Poland’s new Defense Minister seems to be a conspiracy loon, and more….

Poland’s newly appointed defence minister has been condemned for entertaining the possibility that a fraudulent document claiming to show there is a Jewish plan for world domination may be real.

[…]

Macierewicz told listeners to Radio Maryja in 2002 that he had read Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a pamphlet that purports to be a Jewish plan to control the global economy and media, but which has been exposed as a hoax.

He acknowledged there was debate about the pamphlet’s authenticity, but told a listener: “Experience shows that there are such groups in Jewish circles.”

Nostradamus

Note for DPF: I’m happily married and haven’t visited any dating sites in goodness knows how many years.

Yes, I know that DPF doesn’t have any control over the ads, but still! Actually, maybe Reid can assist. I haven’t read any RT or Sputnik threads recently, but I gather you do, so I was wondering whether you’ve been selected for Russian dating ads too?

Young ladies used to be demure. And that used to be considered by boys attractive.

Young ladies used not to drink till they fell over. And a young lady who did used to be considered by boys, a “loose woman”

Young ladies used not to sleep around. Slowly but surely that has changed into today, whereby now sex is just a standard part of a first date, orgies with their peers very common, not far away here. De riguer now, in Western society overseas.

Young ladies used not to be aggressive. Aggression is male territory. Aggression is territorial behaviour. But feminism teaches, to be successful, young ladies must be like men, up to and including aggression, sex and everything else.

If you don’t do that, you’re a traitor to your sex, you’re a sellout to the patriarchal hierarchy.